Greg Dyke

Greg Dyke (20 May 1947-) was a British journalist and businessman who served as Director-General of the BBC from 2000 to 2004.

Biography
Gregory Dyke was born in Hayes, Middlesex, England in 1947, and he began his journalism career during the 1960s, later moving from print to broadcast journalism. He revived the ratings of TV-am by introducing tabloid television to the United Kingdom, and he served as CEO of LWT Group, Pearson Television, and Channel 5 during the 1990s before serving as Director-General of the BBC from 2000 to 2004. He resigned after the Hutton Inquiry found that the BBC's claim that the government had embellished a report about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was false, and he went on to become a director of Manchester United FC and serve as Chancellor of the University of York from 2004 to 2015. Dyke was an active Labour supporter until 2009, when he spoke at a Lib Dem press conference and opposed a third Labour government; that same year, he headed the Conservative Party's creative industries review.